Monoprinting Workshop and Studio Visit
At the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency
Sunday Oct. 2nd, 2:00 - 3:30pm
on Musqueam, Kwantlen, and Tsawwassen territories, at Imperial Landing in Steveston Village (map)
Free, Open to adults, and children over 12 accompanied by an adult
No artistic experience necessary
This workshop is now full. Thank you for interest!
If you would like to be updated on future community art events, please join my newsletter here.
You are invited to join artist-in-residence Keely O’Brien at the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency to learn a monoprinting technique and create your own beautiful artwork inspired by a nest, web, burrow, or other home of your choice! As the final public event of Keely’s residency, participants will also get a chance to experience Dream Home Shrine, a community installation for collective dreaming about what makes us feel at home, and receive a free zine titled Dream Home Manifestation Guide, compiling Keely’s artwork created throughout her residency. Join us for joyful art making and collective reflection on the meaning of home!
Masks are optional but encouraged while within The Blue Cabin’s indoor spaces. Please note that The Blue Cabin is not currently wheelchair accessible - for more accessibility information visit thebluecabin.ca/faq
At the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency
Sunday Oct. 2nd, 2:00 - 3:30pm
on Musqueam, Kwantlen, and Tsawwassen territories, at Imperial Landing in Steveston Village (map)
Free, Open to adults, and children over 12 accompanied by an adult
No artistic experience necessary
This workshop is now full. Thank you for interest!
If you would like to be updated on future community art events, please join my newsletter here.
You are invited to join artist-in-residence Keely O’Brien at the Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency to learn a monoprinting technique and create your own beautiful artwork inspired by a nest, web, burrow, or other home of your choice! As the final public event of Keely’s residency, participants will also get a chance to experience Dream Home Shrine, a community installation for collective dreaming about what makes us feel at home, and receive a free zine titled Dream Home Manifestation Guide, compiling Keely’s artwork created throughout her residency. Join us for joyful art making and collective reflection on the meaning of home!
Masks are optional but encouraged while within The Blue Cabin’s indoor spaces. Please note that The Blue Cabin is not currently wheelchair accessible - for more accessibility information visit thebluecabin.ca/faq
The Dream Home Hotline
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About the project:
Occurring as part of The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, Dream Home Hotline is part of a growing body of work exploring yearning for a sense of home, especially in the context of widespread housing instability. This project was sparked by a conversation with a friend, another young artist who is struggling to find affordable housing and studio space in Vancouver. She told me that she didn’t even want to dream about her “dream home,” as it seems so impossible to attain that thinking about it makes her feel hopeless. This exchange caused me to wonder: what would happen if we allowed ourselves to dream of a joyful sense of home, even in hopeless circumstances? What is risked and what is gained through this dreaming? And what would those dreams of home look like? Dream Home Hotline is an attempt to explore these questions. The project’s tension between hope and hopelessness reflects my own ambivalence, both wanting to believe and doubting that I will ever have a home that feels like home.
Occurring as part of The Blue Cabin Floating Artist Residency, Dream Home Hotline is part of a growing body of work exploring yearning for a sense of home, especially in the context of widespread housing instability. This project was sparked by a conversation with a friend, another young artist who is struggling to find affordable housing and studio space in Vancouver. She told me that she didn’t even want to dream about her “dream home,” as it seems so impossible to attain that thinking about it makes her feel hopeless. This exchange caused me to wonder: what would happen if we allowed ourselves to dream of a joyful sense of home, even in hopeless circumstances? What is risked and what is gained through this dreaming? And what would those dreams of home look like? Dream Home Hotline is an attempt to explore these questions. The project’s tension between hope and hopelessness reflects my own ambivalence, both wanting to believe and doubting that I will ever have a home that feels like home.